Figuratively Speaking June 28
- Source: Global Times
- [13:22 June 28 2010]
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160 yuan-discount a World Expo 2010 in Shanghai ticket holder can get on household appliances at electronics retailer Suning.
Four- number of toddlers killed by hand, foot and mouth disease in the city this year, according to the Shanghai Health Bureau.
146 yuan- price of a standard ticket for the daily high-speed train between Shanghai and Nanjing, which runs at a top speed of 350 kilometers per hour. A first-class ticket on the train costs 233 yuan ($34.27).
Eight- number of disabled people who got a C5 driving license on June 25, the first group of disabled people to obtain driver's licenses in Shanghai.
8 million yuan- amount of money donated by the Shanghai Municipal Government to provinces and autonomous regions that have been hit by severe floods, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou.
13- number of suspects that police arrested in a drug raid that yielded 20 kilograms of ketamine and 200 kilograms of materials used to process drugs. It was the largest raid Shanghai police have carried out this year.
5,000- approximate number of volunteers stationed at Shanghai's subway stations each day.
180- number of first-aid kits that the Shanghai branch of the Red Cross of China donated to the World Expo on June 22.
44.38 percent- percentage of 2010 graduates from local colleges and universities who had signed contracts with employers by the end of May, up by 6 percentage points from the same time last year.
939- number of boxes of Disney knock-off products that Changning Industrial and Commercial Administrative Bureau confiscated from a trading company. The products have an estimated value of 10 million yuan ($1.4 million).
